How to measure a fish.
Common Name:
Select a Fish
Albacore, longfin tuna
Baardman, belman, tasselfish
Banded galjoen
Bartailed flathead, sand or river gurnard, sandfish
Bigeye kingfish, bigeye trevally
Bigeye tuna
Black marlin
Black seabarbel, black seacatfish
Blacktail, Dassie
Blacktip kingfish, yellowtail kingfish
Blacktip shark (female)
Blacktip shark (male)
Blue emperor, scavenger, mata-hari
Blue hottentot
Blue marlin
Blue shark (female)
Blue stingray (female)
Blue stingray (male)
Blueskin, trawl soldier
Bronze bream, copper bream
Bronze whaler, copper shark (female)
Bronze whaler, copper shark (male)
Cape knifejaw, beaked galjoen, cuckoo bass
Cape stumpnose
Captain fine, white-edge rockcod
Carpenter, silverfish
Catface rockcod, Brown-spotted rockcod
Cave bass, lampfish
Chub mackerel, common mackerel, slimy mackerel
Cowshark
Dageraad
Dane
Diamond ray, butterfly ray
Dorado, dolphinfish, mahimahi
Duckbill ray
Dusky kob,daga salmon, kabeljou
Dusky shark, ridgeback grey shark
Eagle ray, bull ray
Eastern little tuna, kawakawa, mackerel tuna
Elf, shad, bluefish, tailor
Englishman
Fransmadam, karel grootoog
Galjoen, damba
Garrick, leervis
Geelbek, Cape salmon
Giant kingfish, jack, trevally
Giant sandshark/guitarfish
Halfmoon rockcod, butcher's prick
Honeycomb ray
Hottentot
Javelin grunter, mof grunter
King mackerel, couta, cuda
King soldierbream
Largemouth queenfish, giant queenfish, talang queenfish
Largespot pompano, wave garrick, moonfish
Lesser sandshark
Malabar rockcod
Milk shark
Natal fingerfin, Natal bank steenbras
Natal knifejaw, cuckoo bass
Natal stumpnose, Yellowfin bream, Silver bream
Oxeye tarpon, Indo-Pacific tarpon
Panga
Pinky, piggy, olive grunt
Poenskop, black musselcracker, black steenbras
Queen mackerel, Natal snoek
Red steenbras, copper steenbras
Red stumpnose, Miss Lucy
River snapper, mangrove snapper, red snapper
Riverbream, perch, slim jannie
Roman, red Roman
Sailfish
Sand soldier, red tjor-tjor
Sand steenbras, marmora
Santer, soldier
Scotsman
Seventy-four
Sharpnose brown ray
Silver kob
Skipjack tuna, oceanic bonito
Slinger
Small kob, mini-kob, nondi
Smooth-hound, houndshark
Snapper kob
Snoek
Soupfin shark, vaalhaai
Southern pompano, African pompano
Spotted grunter, tiger
Spotted gullyshark
Spotted ragged-tooth shark, grey nurse, sand tiger
Springer, ladyfish, tenpounder
Squaretail kob, half kob, snotty
Steentjie
Stonebream, stinker, stinkvis
Strepie, karanteen
Striped catshark, pyjama shark
Striped marlin
Swordfish, broadbill
Westcoast steenbras
White musselcracker, brusher, silver steenbras
White seabarbel, white seacatfish
White shark, great white
White steenbras, pignose grunter
White stumpnose
Yellowbelly rockcod
Yellowfin emperor, yellowtail emperor, scavenger
Yellowfin tuna
Yellowtail fusilier, protea bream
Yellowtail, southern yellowtail
Zambezi shark, bull shark (female)
Zambezi shark, bull shark (male)
Zebra, wildeperd
Scientific Name:
Minimum Legal Size:
Bag Limit:
Measurement Required:
Length (mm):
Weight (g):
Reference: